Sentence examples for serving as a foil from inspiring English sources

Equally well prepared was the beef stroganoff, with the silky mushroom-sour cream sauce serving as a foil for more fork-tender meat and as a luscious backdrop to a reasonable serving of spaetzle.

Murphy, taking on his first period film role, was interested in serving as a foil to Firth's Vermeer, and representing the "ordinary" world that Griet seeks to avoid upon her meeting the artist.

Besides serving as a foil to the network's conservative mainstays Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, Beckel occasionally courted controversy in his own right, getting into hot water for comments about Muslims.

(Scalia occasionally chose an outstanding liberal clerk, to serve as a foil).

Slices of juicy navel oranges served as a foil to the spicy heat.

Go-go Sadik serves as a foil to his increasingly idealistic roommate.

The strange public figure who served as a foil for both Taylor Swift and George W. Bush?

A local clergyman (Jeremy Northam) comes around to serve as a foil for his neighbor and to incarnate both the benevolence and the obtuseness of religious custom.

Her observations are borne out in several large color photographs at Team, set on cliffs and in caves, that serve as a foil to the black and whites.

The lower chamber of Congress has frequently served as a foil for Presidential candidates trying to distance themselves from the more radical elements in their party.

Here she mostly serves as a foil for the top biller Johnny Depp, who (yes, yes) plays the Mad Hatter, and Mr. Burton's bright and leaden whimsies.